Should Burnley Fc Have Apologised?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8448635/Burnley-FC-apologise-White-Lives-Matter-banner-flown-match-against-Manchester-City.html

Could it be that people are fed up with having BLM everywhere they look,sport,tv,newspapers,demonstrations and so on, that a lone guy says also White Lives Matter....Burnley is going to impose a lifetime ban for this, perhaps saying Black and white lives matter may have been a more powerful message?

[Ken4155]

My opinion of you has never wavered, TTT:-/ The knuckle draggers are a very small minority of any football crowd. Emboldened to do their monkey chanting because the proper football fans say nothing. Perhaps, if those genuine fans turn on the morons, said morons would not feel so emboldened. Course, i'm not holding my breath but I am a glass half full kind of guy.
By the way, sensible, down to earth types know that there are always two sides to every coin.

[Ken4155]

Back in Feb of this year, in the German Bundesliga 3, a black player was racially abused by a spectator. Supporters close by alerted security and the abuser was evicted from the ground. As he was being evicted, almost the entire crowd rose and chanted "Nazis Out!" One small step for man.......

[Peter Pedant]

I was feeling the lack of the daily white supremacy thread
but thank god here it is!

it is an expensive frou-frou - skybanners come in at around £10k dont they? I think they should have been allowed to do it - it seems to be that there is an obvious defence to virtually any charge

( but I did think piddler had a defence ) - white supremacist and not so crypto nazis do have a voice and I think it should be heard - and not only on AB !

[Peter Pedant]

// the entire crowd rose and chanted "Nazis Out!"//
yeah but no but
it is against the law t chant nazi slogans in some countries ( Germany ) or deny the holocaust ( France )

[Peter Pedant]

// FF, perhaps I'm just not as gullible as some.//

no I can certify that you are as gullible as they come

[Peter Pedant]

// I can ignore it because it’s nonsense. How the hell is she ‘oppressed’?//

and when you watch the nine minutes of Geo Floyd dying - you feel exactly the same thing ?

[naomi24]

Very many countries have laws against holocaust denial.

[Old_Geezer]

"when you watch the nine minutes of Geo Floyd dying - you feel exactly the same thing ?"

What has that to do with the UK and it's citizens ? Governments can officially protest, but interest groups using it as an excuse to cause trouble in a different country, and disharmony between parts of it's society, that otherwise get on, is unacceptable. Slogans implying only certain lives matter and making a show of supporting this anarchy by going down on one knee, or railing against statues and damaging them, none of this is the slightest bit acceptable. And hardly surprisingly, it results in counter behaviour by those who then feel they are under attack: which may be part of the aim. Cause friction, cause conflict, manipulate the less mentally strong to get them to rise up against the majority decent citizens.

[MartinMillar]

Turn out the banner was paid for by a right wing Burnley group, that the person is a supporter of Tommy I’m a racist moron Robinson and his girlfriend has been suspended for posting racist comments on her social media.
Mmmm nice people not!

[daisypotter]

^ And the people causing mayhem in all our towns and cities at the moment and trying to wreck statues and demanding the police be 'defunded' (whatever that means!) are 'nice' people?? I think not.

[Mamyalynne]

It was done to create aggro, that is what 'matters' to Jake Hepple.

Burnley have done the right thing to disassociate themselves from this and we can all be glad the plane didn't come down given the poor reputation of Air Ads Ltd too.

[10ClarionSt]

Anyway, Ken will tell you that Burnley is the capital of Asia. With Blackburn and Bury not far behind. Maybe someone was trying to make a point. Or two.

[tomus42]

If he hadn't included the word 'Burnley' in it, the club wouldn't have had to get involved. He dragged them into it though, so they're right to express their opinion that he's an rsoul and they want to disassociate themselves from him and his antics.

[Theland]

Martin miller -; Tommy is not a racist for calling out Muslim sex abusers, and imams preaching violence against us.
Check your facts.

[Theland]

Burnley should consider the three white lives lost, murdered at a BLM rally.
Hypocrites!

[Mamyalynne]

Who was murdered at a BLM Rally?

[Theland]

James Furlong, David Walls and Joe Richie-Bennett.

[Theland]

Reading, I was under the impression it was a BLM rally, but who cares?
Innocent white lives that mattered.

[Mamyalynne]

No they weren't.

Those dreadful murders took place hours after the protest had left that area - they were relaxing in the park.

[Ken4155]

Get your facts right Theland. You're condemning Burnley Football Club as hypocrites for not denouncing the killing of the 3 in Reading. Despite the fact their deaths had nothing to do whatsoever with BLM. What a complete and utter fool you are.
10C; Ken will not tell anyone that Burnley is the capital of Asia. Contrary to popular belief, just under 4% of the town's population is of Asian origin. I'm sure there are other places that can lay better claim than us.